Another possible topic: A geological event that was particularly memorable/meaningful to you and why. It could be anything from hearing about but not experiencing a specific event that caught your particular interest, to that one occurrence you were waiting for to make the point on your paper and then it happened, to your own first-hand experience with an event. Or whatever else someone wants to make of it!

I would like to reserve April, please, for something related to Earth Day and where geology fits (or doesn’t). I have a couple old rants about Earth Day, but I’d personally like to try honey this year over vinegar.

Hey everybody! I haven’t forgotten the Wedge. Tuesday the 22d is Earth Day, the US-centric one not the official UN version on the equinox. The April Wedge is, whatever you want to tell the world on Earth Day.

I’ve been a curmudgeon in the past about Earth Day, but I won’t be this year. Global warming has made us all “earth scientists,” which I prefer to call geologists. That will be my theme, I think. But by all means speak your own piece, don’t kowtow to mine. Send your links to geology@about.com, and I’ll drip a post the evening of the 21st just to get a jump on the day, with revisions to accommodate all new submissions.

I also haven’t forgotten about the Wedge! I’m still up for hosting in May, and I think I’m going to use the “significant geological event for you” idea I mentioned earlier in this thread. I’ll make a more detailed and articulate post about it once Andrew posts the April carnival.

I can host the August 2008 issue of the Accretionary Wedge at NOVA Geoblog. How’s this for a theme? Quaggas!

August 12, 1883 was the day the last quagga died. I once attended a great party in Homer, Alaska, in celebration of the quagga. How about ‘geology as connector science’ as a theme? Here’s what I mean:

At my ten-year high school reunion, I saw my AP Biology teacher. I “confessed” that I was a geologist, and apologized for not following biology for my career. “Oh pshaw,” he wisely said. “It’s all the same system anyhow!” Great point, I thought: we draw artificial boundaries between the sciences, but really, we’re all just studying the natural world — maybe different aspects of it, but really we’re all the blind men with one big elephant.

For me, it tied back into the fact that physics was the ultimate science, with chemistry being a subset of physics, and geology being a subset of chemistry, and biology being a subset of geology (since we’ve only found life on Earth, so far…)

Anyhow, the challenge for writers is to explore their own sense of connection to the planet Earth (in any way, shape, or form — quaggas included). I want to hear from geologists about their physical insights, chemical insights, biological insights, anthropological insights, etc.

The theme? Geology. In. Spaaaaace.
Pick your favourite bit of extra-terrestrial geology, or entire extra-terrestrial planet/moon/body and tell us something interesting about it. There’s something for everyone out there. I think it’s time we looked up instead of down for a change : )

Since 2001 I have researched, sourced and recorded information relating to an observation I had originally made at that time regarding the geology of Earth.

Unfortunately, my observations have led me to conclude that much of current, scientific perception of how the landmasses, seas and oceans of our planet were created are incorrect.

My research has produced a wealth of visual information and continues to do so. In fact, every time I return to scrutinise the surface of Earth using various software packages additional supporting evidence emerges. It is of continuing amazement to me that what is clearly visible has not been previously recognised by others.

To date, I have written almost 50,000 (unpublished) words on the subject (250+ pages A5), produced dozens of sketches and sourced highly supportive images from the Internet. Of course at some point in the very near future I will be seeking to publish my work.

During my research I have found that many (apparently disparate) scientific investigations and/or conclusions of the past 100 years do indeed have a collaborative foundation when incorporated within the context of my findings.

I have no wish to be (or sound) sensationalist, but should you be interested in my work please contact me via pm@neighbourhoodservices.com at your convenience (gven my current workload I am afraid I cannot engage with the numerous, web-based blogs this message will be posted to).

I believe that what I have discovered has the potential to reshape future understanding of the geology of our planet and enhance current knowledge of Earth’s evolution.

If your work has the impact you suggest then you should try Nature or Science. This would, of course, mean you’d have to condense the main message into a very short paper. But, if accepted, it would have high impact.

If you google these journal names you’ll find their websites and instructions for authors and submitting a manuscript.

Alternatively, you could self-publish, but you will not get the visibility you want. It sounds like you think this will have a big impact … if so, it’s important that as many people as possible see it. I would go for Nature or Science.

This thread is meant for organizing ideas/themes for future Accretionary Wedge carnivals … Peter, I will leave your comment up since this wasn’t spelled out from the beginning. But, from now on I will moderate comments to stick to the purpose of the post. There are plenty of other venues to discuss broader issues. Is that fair?

[…] This page is for organizing future carnivals. Following Callan’s ‘connection’ theme, we have geology in space in September (at goodSchist), and then geologically-inspired food creations in October (at Geological Musings in the Taconic Mountains). […]

I would like to host a Wedge (December?), geology as we know it is a relatively young science, what changes in our knowledge/understanding recently (the more recent the better, i.e. at least within the last century, or hopefully, since you started in your geology career) has made the biggest impact on you as a scientist? For example, the changes in plate tectonics in the 60’s.

pretty close, I’m more interested in specific advancments that effect you directly (I stated tectonic becuase I work in geothermal fields that tend to be in tectonicly active regions, but thats not what I am going to use🙂

I’d like to propose the topic “Where and when would you most like to visit to witness and analyze an event in Earth’s history?” In other words, suppose you have a space-time machine to (safely and comfortably) watch an event unfold; which event would you most like to see? Why? What do we already know or hypothesize about that event that appeals to you, or that you would like to test? What are possible repercussions of knowing more about this event? Looks like the nest opening is April, but whenever.

I’m up for hosting. The first idea that comes to mind is a topic about that awesome first parent or teacher or class or class trip that convinced you you wanted to go into this field (or if there wasn’t one and you migrated from another field, what motivated you to do that).

@volcanista- sounds like a good one! Kim and I agree that aiming toward a middle of the month post might be best, since there are so many carnivals at the beginnings & ends. So could you plan on putting up a call for submissions sometime in late June?

@ Jim Lehane- All of the topics that I’ve looked over (most but not all), prospective hosts have suggested the topic, and the moderator/administrator (BrianR) has given the go-ahead. There are several of us sharing the duties of moderating and editing now, but I see no reason to change the model. By and large, any reasonable topic will probably be accepted. Fresh Ideas welcome!

I would agree w/ Lockwood … be creative w/ topics … I guess the only recommendation would be to look at all the past ones (which are on this site) so we don’t have an exact repeat. Other than that, go crazy!

Updated the “Who’s hosting?” table. I kinda jumped the gun with Volcanista- I listed her in the table before she even confirmed she could do it that month, without even considering that this is prime field season. Sorry about that, and thanks to Kim for confirming.

It would be a honor to host the AW of September, and maybe remaining in theme, after explaining how somebody becomes geologist, or how to teach geology, why not asking: What remains to be discovered for future earth scientists what we (still) don´t know about earth?

David- I really, really like that idea! As I noted in my inspiration post, I went through a period of some years in my youth where I didn’t realize how much there was we don’t know… I really thought scientists pretty much had everything figured out.

I’d be up for hosting the October edition – just in time for Earth Science Week, perhaps? Could maybe link it in to a geobloggers meetup at GSA as well…

How about outreach for a topic? We all get to talk about our research and teaching experience, but what about geology outside of an academic setting? Earth Science Week is dedicated to getting people interested in geology – how have people in the geoblogosphere contributed to that effort? Have you hosted a geology day, taken people on a field trip, etc.?

That would be fantastic, Jess. I’d been thinking that Earth Science Week could be a good topic, too. (This year’s topic is “Understanding Climate” – maybe we can get some climate bloggers to participate, as well.)

Ms. Kretacea, as one of four people sharing editing responsibilities for this site, I can’t speak for all. That said, there are no formal qualifications for submissions. My sense is that would be a good idea to submit posts for one or two wedge editions before you try to host, though I expect that’s somewhat flexible. If you want to host, it would be a good idea to go back through previous editions to see topics that have been adressed before.

The next wedge is open to submissions right now, and the deadline for the September edition, on the topic “What remains to be discovered for future earth scientists what we (still) don’t know about earth?” See the full call for submissions at Cryology and Co.

Ann, I believe the reason the comment was deleted is because this is not a geo-centric topic. The AW only handles geology related topics because we do not wish to venture into other realms (for an AW topic). For topics like this feel free to write your own blog post but you would have a hard time getting a bunch of geology related blogs to contribute.

Jim
Thank you for seeing this and replying. I’ll accept the fact that no one wants to address this issue and I won’t get any contributors.
I am withdrawing that as the topic.
I get it is not a geology related topic, but it is happening to me with the wedge. Therefore I do think it is relevant and people should be made aware of it. Its frustrating to me that everything I try to posts gets deleted, how would you feel if that happened to you? I just don’t know what else I can to to right this situation, any comments will be greatly appreciated. Right now we will see how long these comments stays up too. If they get deleted again it will just straighten my point as to what is going on.
I still want to host the next wedge -29. I am opened to suggestions, in the mean time I will be thinking of a different topic. Why do I have a strong gut feeling on this that no one will let me do this.
Please send suggestion to me at amowillis@yahoo.com or post them here. Ann Willis

You would have to come up with your own, interesting idea that would get contributions. No one is going to give you ideas for a topic because they would just as likely host that topic on their own. Also you do want to get a backing from the AW moderators because otherwise youll just being doing your own thing off in the distance. My advice is to join up in a few more that are hosted elsewhere before trying to host your own. Most of the people that host these have been blogging for years and have contributed to them frequently before hosting their own.

Posts get deleted if the moderator feels they are impertinent to the topic at hand. This did used to happen to me, although I was more often ignored than deleted but I figured out why and altered the way I approached things. On the internet what you write can be taken wildely differently than from what you mean since you lose a lot of the social interactions in real life. So what I do is I sit back and think “how is what I am writing going to be taken by the people/person I am writing this to” and that has helped to quelch my need to be overly anxious about such things.

And back to being impertinent, this is not realy the place for such discussions so I’m no longer going to talking about it here.

I have come up with a topic for the 29th wedge: ‘What Geological features about the area you are now living in do you love? and what do you not like’. Or “if you could live anywhere where would you and why keeping in mind the geology of the area.”
Ann http://annsmusingsongeologyotherthings.blogspot.com/

As for following other geology blogs I have been since August of 2009, I was told to have a blog of my own to participate so I have. I now feel like I am ready to branch out further.

Thank you for your advice too. I’ve basically kept my comments to myself – that is why so few people know me.

Accretionary Wedge 29 -Accretionary Wedge 29 – “What Geological features about the area you call ‘home’ do you love? and what do you not like?” is now posted at Ann’s Musings on Geology and Other Things.

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Possible AW#31?
It’s Carnival time or Mardi Gras time in Louisiana . This year the season is long – going from Jan 6 (Twelfth night) to March 8 (Fat Tuesday – day before Ash Wednesday). Since the Accretionary Wedge is suppose to be a carnival of blogs I think it is only fitting that the next wedge should have a parade of the blogs. I’m willing to be the captain of this parade. The theme will be “Throw me your ‘favorite geologic picture’ mister” Lets have the floats (submissions) ready on March 4th so it can roll on March 8. Carnival time is all about having a good time and having some fun so lets get some colorful, fun pictures submitted. Laissez les bons temp rouler!! (Let the good times roll!)
Let me know if you are interested.
Annhttp://annsmusingsongeologyotherthings.blogspot.com/

I like that theme — but since I’m working on January for #30, you should pick either February for #31 or keep this as is, and change to “#32” instead (for March). Hopefully someone else could then step up and claim the February slot for #31. Sound good? Which works better for your plan?

[…] earlier today, Ron Schott of the Geology Home Companion Blog asked for volunteers to host future Accretionary Wedges. I’ve long been a fan of this geologically-themed blog carnival so I jumped at the […]

[…] I have finally jumped on the bandwagon and am submitting my first “Accretionary Wedge” post. Because this is my first submittal, and I presumably have some readers who know nothing about the AW series, I’m going to take a couple of sentences to explain. The Accretionary Wedge is an online blog carnival in which fellow geoscience bloggers can submit their own posts to a common topic. Each month or so, a new blogger “hosts” by suggesting the next topic and allowing contributors to post links in the comments to their own sites. The host then presents all the submissions along with a summary, following some deadline. A list of upcoming hosts and topics can be found here. […]

[…] those of you who may not be aware, there is a fantastic thing in the geobloggosphere known as The Accretionary Wedge. Every month or so, someone hosts a specific topic. Geobloggers are invited to contribute, […]

I haven’t forgotten. I’m still circling around a formal call, but for now I’m thinking that geologists make a special kind of photographer because we see landscape quite differently from others. I want you to show your favorite photographs and talk about them.

Maybe that’s enough of a call. Please think on that for the next two weeks.

OK, here’s the Accretionary Wedge challenge: Once upon a time, you took a picture of something that lots of people photograph. However, because you are a geologist, it didn’t turn out the way it does for most people. Show us that picture, tell us what you see in it, and tell us about the way you take pictures.

I’ve been getting emails from students and proto-geos trying to understand what the practical differences of the various geoscience jobs are. I’ve been trying to explain what coursework is helpful, how often different job titles end up in the field (and how far into the bush they go), etc to help them figure out which is the best fit for them. I’ve realized how many are jobs that I don’t really exactly know what they do as they’re in a different part of the pipeline than me.

Do you have a blog post/link for geo’s to leave their submission at? I have not actually done much formal geology work myself,so I may sit this one out. On the other hand, lots of experience with geology education, so I may see if I can develop that angle…